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If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.
Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.
I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.
For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.
A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.
Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.
I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.